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B. SHEDLOGK. Paper Collar.

Patented Aug. 24,1880

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALFRED SHEDLOOK, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO GUSTAVUS A. GOLDSMITH, OF SAME PLACE.

PAPER COLLAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 231,453, dated August 24, 1880.

Application filed March 8, 1880.

To all whom z't may concern Be it known that I, ALFRED SHEDLOOK, of New York, county and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in the Manufacture of Paper 001- lars, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to the manufacture of paper collars, and has for its object to overcome the objection to that class of collars manufactured from combined paper and cloth, which is folded over onto itself, so as to form a strip with cloth-covered edges of a width adapted for the cutting of two rows of collars therefrom on the interlocking plan, the clothcovered edges of the strip forming the outside edges of the completed collars.

In this method of manufacturing collars, as shown in Letters Patent of the United States No. 217 ,937,.granted to G. A. Goldsmith, July 29, 1879, the paper covered on one side with cloth is first cut into strips having parallel straight sides, then pasted and folded lengthwise with the two straight edges meeting in the center of the strip, which meeting of the edges appears in the laps or ends of the bands of the collars cut from the strip on the interlocking plan as a join on the face of the material, and are liable to open and break away upon using the collars. I overcome this objection by first cutting the stock into strips having parallel sinuous edges of such a conformation which, when folded over and pasted, meet on the body of the strip in a sinuous joint which corresponds to and is in the position of the longitudinal interlocking edges of the two rows of collars as cut from the strip, thus enabling collars having both sides cov ered with cloth and perfectly smooth and uniform to be out without any waste of material; and in the better form of collars, which are the principal ones made from this class of stock, and which are so shaped as to necessitate a little waste from the center of the strip, this sinuous join is in the center of the waste, as will be fully hereinafter described by reference to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 represents a strip of collar-stock with sinuous parallel edges. Fig. 2 represents the manner in which collars are cut from the (N0 model.)

folded stock, leaving a little longitudinal waste between the two rows of collars; and Fig. 3 represents the strip folded and pasted, showing by dotted lines the manner collars are cut therefrom without any longitudinal waste.

The collar-stock, composed of paper covered on one side with linen, is made about one yard wide and any desired length. It is first cut into strips with sinuous parallel edges, as represented in Fig. l, which strips are first pasted and then folded on the dotted lines a a, the sinuous edges meeting in the center of the folded strip, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3. The form of the sinuous edges is such as 139 correspond to the.longitudinal division-line of collars cut on the interlocking plan.

The dotted lines D b in Fig. 3 represent the form of the ends of turn-down collars as they are cutfrom the strip. the interlocking longitudinal edges of the two rows of collars meeting on the sinuous joint 0 of the edges of the folded strip.

In cutting collars from the strip in this manner it will be observed that no waste of material occurs between the longitudinal edges of the collars, the only waste being from the button-holes and the small pieces marked 1) N, which form the ends of the bands and the parts of the ends which are folded under in the perfected collar.

' The dotted lines d d, Fig. 2, represent standup collars, the conformation of the bands of which to enable them to set perfectly on the neck of the wearer is such as necessitates some waste of material occurring between the longitudinal edges of the two rows of collars. The sinuous joint 0 of the folded strip in this case is, as shown, located along the middle of the longitudinal-waste.

It is obvious that the sinuous edges of the strips of linen-covered material or of strips having one side otherwise finished may be made to conform to any shape of collar out from the folded strip on the true interlocking plan, as shown at Fig. 3, or approximately to the edges of any shape collars which do not perfectly interlock, as shown at Fig. 2, and that by this method of manufacturing collars having both sides and the outside edges covered with linen, or the finished side of the materiahmay be made with the whole of the surfaces of the two sides perfectly uniform and without seams thereon.

I hereby disclaim anything shown or de scribed in the before'mentioned Letters latout to G. A. Goldsmith, No. 217,937, dated July 29, 1879; but

\Vhat I do claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- 1. The improved method otmanufacturing collars, consisting in forming the material into strips with sinuous parallel edges, pasting and folding the strip so that the edges meet to form a sinuous joint which approximately or exactly corresponds with the longitudinal interlocking edges of the two rows of collar to be cut therefrom, substantially as and for the purposes hereinbefore set forth.

2. As a new article of manufacture, acollar 20 cut from a folded strip and having both of its surfaces perfectly uniform and without any seams, substantially in the manner hereinbefore set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set 25 

